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Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

Opposition day on Wednesday, 25 March 2020, in the House of Commons, led by John McDonnell. The answering member was Simon Clarke.
Seventh opposition day debate (part 2 of 2). Motion that this House has considered the emergency financial and social package needed to support people, families and business through the covid-19 outbreak. Agreed to on question.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

674 cc414-436 

Session

2019-21

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
[Coronavirus] Opposition Day Debates: Social Cohesion & Community and Financial and Social Emergency Support Package
Wednesday, 25 March 2020
Research briefings
Financial and Social Emergency Support Package
Wednesday, 25 March 2020
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 674 c414 (Link to this contribution)

It is a poignant moment as I call the shadow Chancellor to make what might be his final speech fr...

John McDonnell | 674 cc414-5 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

On Monday, the Prime Minister ordered the 21-day lockdown ...


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Catherine West | 674 c415 (Link to this contribution)

In reference to mixed messages, does my right hon. Friend agree that there is a mixed message fro...

John McDonnell | 674 c415 (Link to this contribution)

I will come on to the issue of repatriation, but let me mention it now. All of us now have consti...

Dawn Butler | 674 c415 (Link to this contribution)

I do hope this is not my right hon. Friend’s last outing at the Dispatch Box. I very much thank h...

John McDonnell | 674 c415 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome some of the reassurances that we have heard from the Prime Minister and others today, b...

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | 674 c416 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend mentioned profiteering a short while ago. There are very unscrupulous retail...

John McDonnell | 674 c416 (Link to this contribution)

Profiteering businesses need to recognise that reputational damage to their operations will last ...

Chris Stephens | 674 c416 (Link to this contribution)

Does the shadow Chancellor agree that businesses that refuse to close should be subject to closur...

John McDonnell | 674 cc416-7 (Link to this contribution)

The Government must get serious now, at this stage in the attack by the virus. Therefore, sanctio...

Chi Onwurah | 674 c417 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend may not be aware of reports that the Government have announced that they wil...

John McDonnell | 674 c417 (Link to this contribution)

A bit of practice that has crept into our politics recently is that announcements are made at pre...

Ian Blackford | 674 c417 (Link to this contribution)

For clarity, Robert Peston is saying that the Government have confirmed, that the Prime Minister ...

John McDonnell | 674 c417 (Link to this contribution)

I support the words of Mr Speaker last week, when he made clear the practices that Ministers shou...

Bill Esterson | 674 c417 (Link to this contribution)

I want to take this opportunity to thank my right hon. Friend and the Leader of the Opposition fo...

John McDonnell | 674 cc417-8 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s words. We have asked for a while, not least when we put forwar...

Lloyd Russell-Moyle | 674 c418 (Link to this contribution)

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Government need to ensure that anyone who was laid off b...

John McDonnell | 674 c418 (Link to this contribution)

The problem we have, as my hon. Friend points out, is that this is a voluntary scheme for employe...

Catherine West | 674 c418 (Link to this contribution)

Will my right hon. Friend congratulate the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on ...

John McDonnell | 674 c419 (Link to this contribution)

It demonstrates that naming and shaming works, and at some time in the future I might drink to th...

John McDonnell | 674 c419 (Link to this contribution)

Not necessarily.

Lay-offs are happening at scale, as I said, and hon. Members have mentione...

Chris Stephens | 674 c419 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the shadow Chancellor for giving way again; he has been extremely generous. Coming back t...

John McDonnell | 674 cc419-423 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for the intervention, if only because it enabled me to have a drink, but it was a u...

Simon Clarke | 674 cc421-4 (Link to this contribution)

I begin by offering the deepest thanks and praise of all of us in this House for all those workin...

Chi Onwurah | 674 c424 (Link to this contribution)

I have to correct the record. It was not a paean to the power of the free market; actually, I was...

Simon Clarke | 674 c424 (Link to this contribution)

I will of course take that point for the record. Let me in turn pay my own tribute to the power o...

Chris Stephens | 674 c424 (Link to this contribution)

Let me ask the Minister for, I think, the fifth time today, what action are the Government consid...

Simon Clarke | 674 cc424-5 (Link to this contribution)

To put it simply, none of those individuals ought to be going to work at this time; the Governmen...

Lord Beamish | 674 c425 (Link to this contribution)

I accept what the Minister is saying, but during my contribution I referred to the email that I r...

Simon Clarke | 674 c426 (Link to this contribution)

I take that point to heart. If the right hon. Gentleman sends me the details, I will write to him...

Lloyd Russell-Moyle | 674 c426 (Link to this contribution)

My ex has been sent a letter from his employer saying, “We want to put you on the 80% but we don’...

Simon Clarke | 674 c426 (Link to this contribution)

I can confirm that other Government Departments, alongside my own, will have heard the hon. Gentl...

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | 674 c426 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Minister advise Members as to whether local authorities will be given full information a...

Simon Clarke | 674 cc426-7 (Link to this contribution)

I can of course commit that we will share that information whenever we have the full dataset avai...

Simon Clarke | 674 c427 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way in one moment. We expect a formal practice direction to the courts imminently, un...

Sarah Jones | 674 c427 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for finishing his sentence so that I heard that last bit, as it was helpful....

Simon Clarke | 674 cc427-8 (Link to this contribution)

I will write to the hon. Lady with full details on that point and make that letter public. That i...

Ruth Cadbury | 674 c428 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor for raising the point I raised w...

Simon Clarke | 674 c428 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady for her suggestion, which will have been heard. I can confirm that free sch...

Barry Gardiner | 674 c428 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister said that only children of parents who are engaged in essential services should be g...

Simon Clarke | 674 c428 (Link to this contribution)

It is key workers only. I have to correct the hon. Gentleman. It is only those who are doing the ...

Simon Clarke | 674 c429 (Link to this contribution)

I think I must move on.

Once this crisis is passed, the United Kingdom can re-emerge with p...

Ian Blackford | 674 c429 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am most grateful to you for granting this point of order. Robe...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c429 (Link to this contribution)

Quite rightly, emotions are running very high, and quite rightly, Members have been asking what m...

Jeremy Corbyn | 674 c430 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Following what the SNP spokesman just said, may we as...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c430 (Link to this contribution)

I will be quite honest. This is a time when people in the United Kingdom expect the parties to co...

Lord Beamish | 674 c430 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I echo the sentiments you just outlined—this is a tim...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c430 (Link to this contribution)

It would take us through probably to next Tuesday.

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | 674 c430 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I rise to seek your advice further to what has just b...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c430 (Link to this contribution)

In fairness, I am a servant of the House, and the House will decide whether we sit or do not sit....

Dawn Butler | 674 c431 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I absolutely agree that, at this time of national cri...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c431 (Link to this contribution)

If we were to sit tomorrow, no doubt somebody might wish to table an urgent question. I will leav...

Chi Onwurah | 674 c431 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment that this i...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c431 (Link to this contribution)

Would the hon. Gentleman like to make a point of order?

Barry Gardiner | 674 c431 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Is it within your powers to suspend this sitting whil...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c431 (Link to this contribution)

I suspect the answer will be that the Prime Minister is not ready to tell the House. I suspect th...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 674 cc431-2 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I wonder whether I can be as helpful as possible to t...

Valerie Vaz | 674 c432 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. You made it very clear in your statement exactly how ...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c432 (Link to this contribution)

It is very important. Ian Blackford, did you want to come back on this?

Ian Blackford | 674 c433 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I am very grateful for the statement from the Leader ...

John McDonnell | 674 c433 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I understand some of the difficulties, but perhaps we...

Lloyd Russell-Moyle | 674 c433 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday, the Health Secretary held a very innovativ...

Lord Spellar | 674 c433 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. This is deeply unfortunate. I fully understand the wo...

Lord Beamish | 674 c434 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. The Leader of the House is an honourable man. There i...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c434 (Link to this contribution)

I will come back to the Leader of the House. I think it is quite clear that those channels should...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 674 c434 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. If I may respond immediately to the point about what ...

Jeremy Corbyn | 674 c434 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. A very clear request was made by my right hon. Friend...

Dawn Butler | 674 c435 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. The Leader of the House says that it is not possible ...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c435 (Link to this contribution)

The only thing I would say in their defence is that I do not think there was much detail in Pesto...

Lord Beamish | 674 c435 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition has...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c435 (Link to this contribution)

I think the Leader of the House has a note that he might be able to share.

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 674 c435 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Inspiration has come to me. It is possible for verbal...

Lindsay Hoyle | 674 c435 (Link to this contribution)

On that basis, I am going to put some questions. Somebody has asked why we cannot suspend. We can...

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